Posts Tagged sketchbook

It’s Kid Art Day here at Hubriscomics again. Derion drew a skateboarder. More or less. He originally brought me the drawing with just the guy standing there. When I said that only drawings with Hubris-type themes were going on the website now, he added the skateboard and the ‘speed lines’.

I usually return the kids’ drawings to them in a little sketchbook make from 11X17 folded and stapled. I think that may be Derion’s motivation. I think that ’cause he handed me the drawing the first time and said, “I want a sketchbook!”

If I keep upping the ante required for these sketchbooks, eventually these young’uns will learn to draw all kind of cool stuff.

As mentioned before, there are some local schoolkids that know what I do, and have discovered that I will ‘publish’ their cartoons. I think I’m going to impose a ‘theme’ rule- that the drawings have to have skateboards or bikes or suchlike in them from now on. Not that I don’t like DragonBall Z tracings, but … y’know… I don’t, much.

Here’s a couple of drawings, though- One’s from Eric Owens and the other’s by a young man who didn’t sign his cartoon. I usually return the cartoons stuck on the cover of a sort of sketchbook thingy, so maybe the sketchbook is more important to him than having his name on here. I’ll update when he tells me his name.

I may have mentioned that I do career day at a couple of schools around here. Add to that, walking a big dog to drop off and pick up my kids at school, and you get a few students who know what I do for a living. A young man named DeVarelier Mitchell shows me some of his artwork now and again. And he asked if I could publish a cartoon he drew. Of course, I said “yes”. Publishing isn’t what it used to be, apparently. When I was a kid, getting published meant knowing somebody who worked at the local paper, or at least at a screenprint shop that needed some work on the cheap. Now? Ask that kid’s dad, the one with the webcomic if he’ll pop it on there one Tuesday.

Anyhow, here’s DeVarelier’s cartoon. If you’d like to see it nice and large you’ll have to click on it, and then maybe click on it again until you get the huge version. I took the blue notebook lines out for you, and I made up a little sketchbook for DeV, so he can draw on unruled paper for a bit. I think he has a big future in mutant violence comics. I’m sure you agree.

Would you like to be ‘published’? I’d prefer things with skateboards and bikes and such in it, or maybe even Hubris or Kara or somebody, but hey, if you read the Hubris, the least I can do for you is use a Tuesday here and there to get you published… whatever that means in these days of digital media.